Chapter 138: Chinese New Year's Eve
Yingchun Palace was in front of him, he had something to do, Wan Ying hurriedly said goodbye to him, and walked straight towards Wan Yun's side hall. It was Mo'er brought by Wanyun from the house who opened the door, and she was extremely affectionate when she saw Wanying. Pulling Miss Wanying, Miss Chang said shortly.
Wan Yun sat in front of the charcoal basin embroidering a big red bandana, don't think about it, it must be given to Wan Ying. Seeing Wanying come in, she said to Mo'er: "Ask the kitchen to bring the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." ”
After listening to this, Mo'er closed the door and walked out. Wanying sat down with Wanyun and watched her carefully embroider the peony, full of blessings in every stitch.
"Sister Labor."
"It's not troublesome, it's nothing to do, but it's just a shining scene, my sister is getting married, and I want my sister's hand-embroidered rich and auspicious headscarf, and I wish my sister a lifetime, rich and auspicious."
Wanyun said emotionally, and Wanying was also moved when she listened. In fact, when Wanying and Wanyun were close in age when they were children, they were the most intimate, but as they grew up, the mustard between Aunt Gao and Aunt Lin made them estranged from each other, but their hearts were always close.
There were a few peeled walnut skins scattered on the table, Wan Ying remembered that Wan Yun loved to eat walnuts when she was a child, so she picked up the clip, dialed one, and handed it to Wan Yun's mouth, she smiled and ate the walnuts that Wan Ying peeled.
"Do you remember?"
"How can you forget."
"It's been so many years, I remember the last time you peeled walnuts for me, we were only seven or eight years old, you are a ghost, I will make beads, right?"
Listening to her tell us about our childhood, it felt like returning to the teacher's house. "I still have the beads made by my sister, it's really precious."
"Aunt Lin's poetry and writing are stronger than my mother's, but the female red is far behind my mother, and my mother's beads can be sold ......" Before the words were finished, Wanyun felt speechless, and accidentally told the secret of the mother and daughter, and stopped talking about it when she thought of this.
"What my sister said is that my sister is the same, she only knows how to read and write all day long, and these skills are really not as good as my sister." Wan Ying saw that she was halfway through her words, thinking of the words she heard in the back garden before entering the palace, and she probably knew what Wan Yun hadn't said. Afraid that she would be embarrassed, he deliberately pretended not to hear it, and continued her words.
As he spoke, several palace maids rushed in with food boxes, placed dishes one by one on the table in the outer hall, and then steadily lifted the table into the warm pavilion and placed it next to the charcoal basin.
Wanyun is a nobleman, so she lives in three wings, a main hall in the middle, there is no floor heating, and the warm pavilion is Wanyun's bedroom, and the ground fire is extremely warm. also deliberately added a charcoal basin, and after a while, Wanying was so hot that not only did she relieve the big hair, but even took off the fluffing shoulders that were set outside.
Wan Yun ordered them to stand back and not mention it. Only Mo'er was left to serve. Because it was a few palace maids in the new year, they couldn't wait to retire as soon as possible, and they all left with a smile. The charcoal pot was added to the charcoal fire, and the room was very warm, and Wan Ying looked at the dishes on the table, which were just home-cooked dishes, without the slightest meaning of the New Year.
Wanyun also felt that it was inappropriate: "Mo'er, are all the dishes ready?" ”
Seeing this, Mo'er was afraid that Wanying would misunderstand, so she said directly: "Have you forgotten, yesterday, Tong Zhaoyi said that the queen mother would be given a delicate dish at the family banquet in the palace in the evening." Therefore, the kitchen is only busy with the dishes of the Queen Mother today, and does not prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the nobles at all. ”
Wanyun was originally in a happy mood, but when she heard this, she suddenly became a little cloudy, and Wanying hurriedly said: "Sister, everything we eat is the same, the New Year's picture is a reunion, you and I are together, what do you eat or not?" ”
After Wanying finished speaking, she quickly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and thought in her heart: It's bad, she still talks straight, Wanyun is delicate, isn't it obvious that the dishes she entertains her own are not good?
Sure enough, Wanyun's brows were a little sad, her eyes were full of tears, and she had an aggrieved face.
Mo'er was beside her, and hurriedly said: "The third lady doesn't know, Tong Zhaoyi has been bullying our nobles for a day or two, and today's matter must be her instructing the kitchen, otherwise how can those people who have suffered a thousand knives be like this." ”
Even Mo'er said so, Wanying knew that Wanyun's life in the Spring Festival Palace would definitely be unsatisfactory, but if this word spread, wouldn't my sister give someone a handle, not to mention that today is indeed cooking for the Queen Mother, if my sister deliberately can't get by, wouldn't it be a long time with the Queen Mother.
"Mo'er, you can also go down and have a lively time with them, I can eat with the nobles by myself, don't tell others about the meal, understand?"
Mo'er nodded and retreated, Wanyun still had a dark look on her face, and Wanying took some bamboo shoots and put them on Wanyun's plate.
"I remember that my sister loves to eat bamboo shoots in wind-pickled oil, although this is bamboo shoots, it looks like it is wind-pickled, sister tastes it, does it taste right?"
Wanyun nodded, thanking Wanying for giving her food, and said, "I'm also used to wronging my sister." ”
"Sister, Wanying is not aggrieved, Wanying feels sorry for her sister, if she is really bullied by her every day, which day will it be the head?"
"There's no way, a higher level crushes people to death, not to mention that she is Zhaoyi, I have nothing to do, since I have met, I can't bear it, I don't argue with her."
Wanyun has always been a submissive mind, and Wanying also knows this. It's just that her sister is angry, and Wanying's heart is really useless. A plate of pickled bamboo shoots, a stack of sweet and crispy silver bars, a stack of spinach, a stack of white chopped chicken, a small bowl of steamed pork, two bowls of japonica rice, and the meal passed like this.
The sound of the drum music of the family banquet in the palace passed through the dense snow and entered the Spring Palace, which must have been very lively.
The maids cleaned up the meal, took out the tea set, Wanying and Wanyun, while making tea, drinking tea and gossiping, they were also at ease.
After a tea talk, I heard someone coming over from the corridor, and when I came in, I saw that it was Mo'er, her mouth and nose were red, and she was so anxious that her brows were tightly locked, and she said: "Master, it's terrible, Tong Zhaoyi came back from the Zhenghe Palace, smashed something in the house, and the heir called you over." ”
"Okay, pass me on what to do?"
"Who knows? Master, let's go, it's too late, and we have to listen to her, okay, let's not provoke her, let's go see what's going on! ”
As soon as I heard the Zhenghe Palace, it was the place where the night banquet of the palace was tonight, and the night banquet had just begun, so Tong Zhaoyi would come back? Wanying was wondering, only to see Wanyun and Mo'er hurriedly go out.
Wanying was the only one left in the room, sitting there bored, not walking, not leaving. Pick up the walnut clips and clip the walnuts one by one.
About a pillar of incense, walnuts also sandwiched a plate. Wan Yun still didn't come back, Wan Ying couldn't sit still, got up and put on her shoulders, put on a big hat, and walked towards the main hall where Tong Zhaoyi lived. ”
"The concubine didn't, the concubine felt wronged!"
"You say our mother wronged you?"
Before the words fell, there was a series of extremely irrelevant complaints: "In the end, it is the daughter of the Yin family of Shuntian Mansion, the entire Ziwei Divine Palace, even the queen has the intention not to wear red clothes, not to compete with the palace, but you deliberately can't get along with the palace, you think that Your Majesty praises you two sentences, you will be satisfied, tell you, you are a little nobleman, you have sealed the concubine, and you can't afford to make big waves, Your Majesty can still be fresh to you for a few days, you better seduce the emperor quickly, let him make you a noble concubine, and get out of this Spring Palace as soon as possible, or if the emperor is light on you, When the time comes, it's too late for you to cry. ”
followed by Wanyun's crying voice: "Niangniang, the matter of the red clothes, Wanyun really didn't have the intention to collide with Niangniang." ”
"Whether you have a heart or an inadvertence, the palace doesn't care about you, but today, why did you let the palace send chickens to the queen mother, the queen angrily reprimanded the palace and said that this year's year of the rooster is the queen mother's natal year, and eating chicken in the natal year is to lose your life. In front of the royal family, how can you embarrass the palace? ”
"What did the queen say?" The speaker is Wanyun, who is crying and waiting for the answer.
"Not her or who? Concubine Chun's embroidered pillow is afraid of her, but I'm not afraid of her, if it weren't for your bad idea today, how could I be humiliated by her. Even the Queen Mother was angry with me. ”
"Niangniang, my little master is also ......"
"Shut up, this palace admonishes the people in the palace, how can you be a slave to intervene, this is how the noble master teaches you on weekdays, and the Spring Festival Palace is really getting more and more unruly."
"It seems that today's slaves and maids are going to discipline and discipline their own palace people for their mothers. There is no master position, and the following offenders are committed, and someone comes to slap this palace maid named Mo'er forty. The teacher and noble man disciplined the subordinates without a way, and he took ten strokes of his own hands. After a brief pause, he said: "Remembering that Mo'er is the first time to contradict Niangniang, let's make a note for the time being, if there is a punishment next time." "It should be the aunt in charge of the Spring Festival Palace who spoke.
"This kind of thing, if there is a next time, what kind of system will it become, it is not as good as the current development, the noble teacher, this palace is so fair and clear, you don't go to your heart. This palace is also for your good, if you don't give you Zhang Zhang's memory, it doesn't matter if you collide with me today, I was originally a small Zhaoyi, but in this huge palace, how many true Buddhas are there, if you collide with others, maybe it's not as simple as your own palm. ”
"Niangniang, today's matter, Wanyun didn't mean to embarrass Niangniang in front of everyone, the Buddha is above, if Wanyun is panicked when she says a word, teach me not to die." Wan Yun was already choked up, and she was extremely helpless at the moment.
"Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the gods and Buddhas are all busy with offerings now, so how can we care about this trivial matter. The noble teacher doesn't want to get rid of these ten slaps, right? Tong Zhaoyi is still aggressive.
Seeing that Wanyun's humiliation was inevitable, Wanying couldn't hold it back, so she directly pushed the door open and broke in. When she entered the house, Wan Yun had already raised her right hand, and Tong Zhaoyi was sitting there, looking at Wan Yun with a smug face.
Wanying broke in like this, and everyone in the house was startled.
"What about the ears of the good spirit, what about your sister here in this palace, you dare to break into my Spring Festival Palace at night?"
"Niangniang misunderstood, the slave maid has been with her sister all the time, just because the maid is in a hurry, so my sister has never added clothes, and the slave maid is afraid that my sister will catch a cold in the cold, so I came to send a dress to my sister."
Tong Zhaoyi glanced at the big hair on Wanying's hand, knowing that Wanying was not lying, but she also knew that it was impossible to embarrass Wanyun in front of Wanying's face. But Zhang Yang went out, it didn't benefit her at all, not to mention that it depended on the owner to beat the dog, even if she wasn't afraid of Wanying going out, she had to take into account Prince Rong's status as a prince.
"In the end, it is a deep sisterhood, this palace will look at it today, and the face of Prince Rong and Princess Rong will pass for the time being." Tong Zhaoyi is so clever, when she saw Wanying entering the hall, she already knew that this matter had to be stopped, otherwise she would not be able to take advantage of it if it really made trouble.
I knew in my heart that she was deliberately going to Wanyun today, and she was unwilling to do so in her heart, and she had to be respectful and beautiful: "It's not early, Niangniang is tired for a day, so we won't disturb Niangniang's rest." ”